James Watt, 26, pleaded guilty to unlawful production of document or authentication feature and money laundering, after the US attorney’s office of the southern district of Indiana accused him of manufacturing and mailing 30,000 fake driver’s licenses and other forms of false identification.
An Indiana man has been sentenced to three years of probation for making fake IDs after being caught operating a website that publicly declared: “Your #1 Trusted Source for Fake IDs”.
John Childress, the acting US attorney for the southern district of Indiana, said: “Watt nearly became a millionaire simply through the manufacturing and mailing of thousands of fake IDs, essentially running a one-man BMV [Bureau of Motor Vehicles].
Indiana man pleads guilty to making and selling more than 30,000 fake IDs James Watt, 26, sentenced to three years of probation after earning over $1.3m worth of bitcoin for false documents.
According to court documents, Watt worked for a website between 2019 and 2023 that allowed customers to purchase fake driver’s licenses, paid for mostly using bitcoin.
